Definition of Blinding

Blinding

of Blind

Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow.

A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved road. See Blind, v. t., 4.

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Blinding Quotations

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
Leonardo da Vinci

Success and money can really be quite blinding.
Jim Harrison

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.
Stephen Jay Gould

There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
Ivy Compton-Burnett

What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.
Godfrey Reggio

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.
Margery Allingham

Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is happening till about page two hundred - then it all becomes apparent in a blinding flash.
Nicholas Mosley

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.
Rose Macaulay

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Blinding Translations

blinding in German is verblendend, blendend
blinding in Spanish is deslumbrante

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